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Flawless
By Joshua Spanogle
* Publisher: Delacorte Press
* Number Of Pages: 496
* Publication Date: 2007-08-28
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0385338546
* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780385338547
Product Description:
A former medical detective for the Centers for Disease Control, Dr. Nate McCormick had seen enough suffering to last a lifetime. Now he’s left the CDC, determined to begin a new life with his girlfriend in San Francisco…until the vicious murder of a biotech researcher—an old friend—hurtles him back into the medical world he’d left behind. While the police hunt for a killer, Nate starts sifting through evidence, determined to find what his friend did to provoke his brutal death. And the truth he ultimately discovers far exceeds the very worst he had imagined.
As a circle of treachery tightens around Nate, and the woman he loves is thrust into the line of fire, patients surface with agonizing stories to tell. Nate is about to make the most startling discovery of all: a secret alliance between crime, science, and a billion-dollar industry determined to hide its victims at any price. For Nate, that price will be the one person most important to him—unless he can expose the flaw in a perfect conspiracy of medicine and murder.
From shocking evidence revealed under a microscope to the shattering testimony of those betrayed by the ruthlessness of the medical industry, Flawless takes us on a terrifying, adrenaline-charged journey. Taut, thrilling, and relentless, it will leave you pondering its questions long after the last page is turned.
Summary: Pretty enjoyable
Rating: 5
I believe this book is slightly better than the last. It was a page turner. Spanogle has really gotten the hang of it. I believe he really has talent. I hope he is enjoying the writing enough to continue despite his busy schedule. It takes a certain amount of detachment from the daily grind of medicine to write, and sometimes this can take away the impetus to write. I think of one of my favorite quotes about becoming a physician, by Charles LeBaron in Gentle Vengeance, about his first year in medical school, "It seemed tome I had a little vial of weetness and kindness around stomach level. It'd been full when I was born...but I was hanging on for dear life to those remaining couple ounces. They had me for six or so more sears, ample chance to make me spill the rest in wrath or discouragement." That's one trap. Another one is becoming jaded or totally conformist. One can't be a total conformist and create art. My best wishes to Joshua Spanogle.
Summary: I liked it better than Isolation Ward.
Rating: 4
I had a bit of trouble getting through Isolation Ward, but I did enjoy it. I found Flawless to be a better written book. I will be anxious for the third book to see if it is less wordy and tighter. Good reads.
Summary: Flawless? No. Excellent? Yes
Rating: 4
Joshua Spanogle's 2nd novel featuring Dr. Nathaniel McCormick is a great read, though overlong in spots. In this outing McCormick has relocated to San Francisco to be closer to his girlfriend, but has become professionally adrift. Through a chance meeting with an old colleague McCormick is drawn into a conspiracy to cover-up an outbreak of cancers, and McCormick has to negotiate the goings-on behind the scences to uncover the source of the mutations. Punctuated frequently with humor and violence, the story takes us along on McCormick's journey.
Well done, but could have used one more round with an editor.
Summary: For those who enjoy intrigue with a medical flavor
Rating: 5
This book falls into the category of the page-turner....one you won't want to put down until you reach the end. The author keeps the reader on the edge of his or her seat, just as with his first medical novel, leaving one anxious for the printing of his 3rd. Despite, I am sure, some poetic license taken with the possible vs impossible, for those of us who are fans of medical mystery novels, I highly recommend this one.
Summary: Another great novel..
Rating: 5
Spanogle has written another wonderful book. I love the main character's personality and his humor. A great read. I hope there is another book in the near future.
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